Goosey, Goosey, Gander -

Introducing divisions for a dotted eighth note followed by a sixteenth note. Challenging intervals will require your best readers.

Description

Grade: Kindergarten
Origin: England – Late 16th-century Nursery Rhyme
Key: C Major
Time: 4/4
Form: ABaC
Rhythm: advanced: | ti ti ti ti ta ta | ta ti ti ta ta |
| ti ti ti ti ta ti/ ri | ta ti ti ta ti ti | ti ti ti ti ta ti ti |
| ti ti ti ti ta/a |
Pitches: advanced: Ti Do Re Mi Fa So La Do
Intervals: advanced: Mi/So, La/Do, Do\So, So\Mi, Re/Fa\Re, Re\Ti, Mi/La, La\Fa
Musical Elements: notes: half, quarter, dotted eighth, eighth, sixteenth; excellent for introducing a dotted eighth sixteenth division, uncommon intervals
Key Words : prayers, wander, up, down, stairs, lady’s chamber, old, left, goose, gander

**“Goosey, Goosey, Gander”**
Goosey, goosey, gander, Where shall I wander? Up stairs and down stairs And in my lady’s chamber. There I met and old man Who would not say his prayers, So I took him by the left leg, And threw him down the stairs.

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